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Re: NFC: Field Trip to K.U. (fwd)
Wouldnt that be the day to see carolina keets at backyard bird feeders in
Kansas again :)
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:44:44 -0600 (CST) mcclurg luke e
<mcclurgl at washburn_edu> writes:
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 robertrice at juno_com wrote:
>
> > WOW The Carolina Parakeet and Ivory Billed woodpecker ...VERY COOL
> >
> > So whats the theory on the keets again ? Id always heard it was a
> hunting
> > thing,
> >
> > How about a carolina Parakeet Clone :)
>
> The theory is that as people brought over their Old World parrots
> and pet
> birds that they also brought along viral and bacterial pathogens
> that
> decimated the 'Keets' population. According to the collections
> curator
> yesterday, the hunting pressures on this bird were not nearly high
> enough
> to have been the sole contributor to it's demise. That's the
> opposite of
> the Passenger Pigeon (of which KU has specimens too) in which
> hunting put
> tremendous pressure on the population.
>
> Actually, from the way they were talking yesterday, maybe in a few
> decades
> they will be able to extract DNA from these specimens. Can a clone
> be far
> behind? Hmmmmmm........
>
> Luke
>
>
Robert Rice
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